"whaleling" meaning in English

See whaleling in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: whalelings [plural]
Etymology: From whale + -ling. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|whale|ling}} whale + -ling Head templates: {{en-noun}} whaleling (plural whalelings)
  1. A small or young whale. Synonyms: whaling Translations (young whale): ballenato [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-whaleling-en-noun-4U4pKeth Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ling

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for whaleling meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "whale",
        "3": "ling"
      },
      "expansion": "whale + -ling",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From whale + -ling.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whalelings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "whaleling (plural whalelings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ling",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1937, Henry Goddard Leach, Forum and century - Volume 97 - Page 108",
          "text": "Their blood and body temperatures are warm and constant, and they bring forth living offspring — and produce milk to suckle their young whalelings with.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, plasticactus.livejournal.com/1924.html?thread=4228",
          "text": "I like to think that Old Grandma Sperm Whales tell bedtime stories to the little whalings all about the deviousness and monstrosity that humankind used to inflict upon their ancestors."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Louisa May Alcott, Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc.",
          "text": "My wife was a charming creature, and we were very happy, till one sad day, when she was playing with our child, – a sweet little whaleling only twelve feet long, and weighing but a ton, — my son was harpooned.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small or young whale."
      ],
      "id": "en-whaleling-en-noun-4U4pKeth",
      "links": [
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "young",
          "young"
        ],
        [
          "whale",
          "whale"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "whaling"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "young whale",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ballenato"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "whaleling"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "whale",
        "3": "ling"
      },
      "expansion": "whale + -ling",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From whale + -ling.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whalelings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "whaleling (plural whalelings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ling",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1937, Henry Goddard Leach, Forum and century - Volume 97 - Page 108",
          "text": "Their blood and body temperatures are warm and constant, and they bring forth living offspring — and produce milk to suckle their young whalelings with.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, plasticactus.livejournal.com/1924.html?thread=4228",
          "text": "I like to think that Old Grandma Sperm Whales tell bedtime stories to the little whalings all about the deviousness and monstrosity that humankind used to inflict upon their ancestors."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Louisa May Alcott, Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc.",
          "text": "My wife was a charming creature, and we were very happy, till one sad day, when she was playing with our child, – a sweet little whaleling only twelve feet long, and weighing but a ton, — my son was harpooned.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small or young whale."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "young",
          "young"
        ],
        [
          "whale",
          "whale"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "whaling"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "young whale",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ballenato"
    }
  ],
  "word": "whaleling"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.